Psorinum

The sero-purulent matter contained in the Scabies vesicle was used for Hahnemann’s provings (No. 1).

The product of “Psora sicca” (epidermoid efflorescence of Pityriasis) was used for the provings by Dr. Gross (Nos. 2 to 5).

Preparation, Triturations.

Authorities. 1, Hahnemann’s provings by “ S-” and “R-with the 30th potency, once repeated doses, Archiv. f. Horn., 13, 3,163; 2, Gross, Archiv. f. Horn., 15, 3, 177 ; 3, like, ibid.; 4, Ivretschmar, ibid.; 5, Liedbeck, ibid.; 6, Usher, “ The Organon,” 1, p. 104, effects of 6th dil. given to a woman for intense sleepiness in forenoon, of some years’ duration; 7, same, effects of continuing to take the “C. M.” Swan, after the cough, for which it had been prescribed, had been relieved.

Mind

Excitable before falling asleep

Very sentimental

Cheerful, lively, enjoys everything (sixth day)

Suddenly very lively, at other times depressed; thus it changed several times during the day

He pictures the future in the brightest colors

In good humor; he works with pleasure (second morning)

In great humor and full of fun

Anxiety, full of forebodings, very restless, with trembling of the hands

Unusual anxiety when riding in a carriage (first day)

* He is anxious, full of fear, and melancholic

Anxious oppression, palpitation

Sometimes very melancholy, and then excessively frolicsome

* She is so downhearted that she coidd commit suicide, then isjidl of phantasms

* Very melancholy and despairing; he wishes to die in spite of his good luck

* Melancholy and sorrowful

* Very depressed (seventh day)

* Despairing mood; he fears to fail in business

* His ideas are sad and joyless

* Extremely illhumored

Very irritable; quarrels about trifles

Very irritable, and wants to talk all the time

* She is very irritable, easily angered; thinks always of dying

Very irritable and quarrelsome, in the morning

He is very irritable, although he conquers his ill-humor; only disagreeable things affect him, agreeable impressions he passes by without noticing them (from smelling 28th potency)

Irritable, could weep about everything

Irritable and quarrelsome in the evening

Fretful for two days (after one drop of 15th)

Very quarrelsome

Every moral impression affects her so much that she trembles over the whole body

Thinking that he understood what he read, he tries to explain it to another, and thus finds out that he does not understand it himself

He cannot rid himself of the ideas which appeared to him first in his dreams, during the night (for three days)

Great disinclination to ride in a carriage (foxfour weeks); then at once she wants to ride all the time, even in bad weather

Does not like to work

She loses her memory, so that she does not recognize the room after looking out of the window (second day)

Memory so weak that he forgets what he had just said

Very forgetful (eighth day)

Very weak memory ; she cannot recollect anything

Head

Vertigo Vertigo, every thing turns around with him (eighth day)

Vertigo and former sparks before the eyes reappear

Vertigo in the morning

Much dizziness in the head

General Head. When he woke at night his head felt cloudy, as if he had been intoxicated during the evening; befogged, stupid, he tumbles about

Sensation of heaviness in the head (mornings)

* Great dulness of the head, so that he fears an inflammation of the brain; nosebleed relieves?.

Dull headache, with eructations

Weakness of the head

Severe headache, as if a stick were pressing into her head, with great weakness. She has to lie down about 1 P.M., and soon falls asleep. She perspires freely during the night, which greatly relieves her (second to third day)

Headache tearing

Headache, as if everything would protrude through the forehead (second day, toward evening)

* Headache (evening, second day)

Headache, coldness, dryness of mouth and lips

Spasmodically contracting headache (eighth day)

Pressing headache, with otorrhoea (seventh and eighth days)

* Pressing headache, especially unilateral (in a herpetic patient)

Frequent intermittent headache (from 9 drops of the 29th potency)

Pain in the head ; an excruciating tearing, from which, in a similar manner, he formerly suffered, and then always for two days, is this time combined with a high fever and general arthritic pains

■* Pains all through the head, as if a hammer were heating in the head

Thrusts in the head (fifth day)

A severe stitch in the sinews of the head, when turning the neck on the left side, Sensation as if her whole head were burning

* Fulness of the head during mental labor

The blood pulsates in the head during mental labor

Forehead. He feels stupefied in the left half of the forehead (in the morning, after three hours)

* Frontal headache, with sensation o f weakness in the forehead

* Frontal headache, as if the brain had not space enough in the skull, on rising in the morning, as if everything were pushed out; it feels better after washing and breakfast,,1.

* Frontal headache (third day)

Headache, pressing, over the whole forehead, especially in the temples, increased by steady mental exertion, relieved by motion, especially in the fresh air; it is worst morning and evening, with excessive sensation of heaviness in the forehead ; frequently it suddenly passes off, and attacks instead the molars of the left side (from 10 drops of 30th)

Pressing headache in the forehead and temples (seventh day)

Pressing, frequently at intervals ; pinching pain, with a sensation of heaviness in the upper part of the forehead; sometimes the whole forehead aches, and then it feels as if the temples were pressed in; afterwards it suddenly changes to pressing pains in the molars, most frequently when walking in the fresh air; it begins early in the morning, and is most severe in the early hours of the morning and in the evening (eight hours after 10 drops of 1st)

On the left side of the forehead dull, pressing, acute stitches, not affected by rest or motion (second and third days)

Contracting frontal headache

Burning in the forehead (second day)

A drawing in the frontal sinuses, as in coryza

Pain in the centre of the forehead (fourth day)

A stitching pain extending from the forehead to the nose

Stitches in the right side of the forehead, extending into the eye

Temples. Pain in the temple after mental exertion

A pressure, shooting into the head, in the left temple (first evening)

Hammering pain in the temples

Boring, stitching pains in the temples

Vertex and Occiput. Dull pressing headache in a small spot of the vertex, after an hour, returning repeatedly (from the 30th)

Sensation as if a cord were tied firmly around the skin, especially about the occiput, which feels as if it were pressed outward

A pressing pain, as if strained, in the right side of the occiput (noon)

External Head. Many pimples on the forehead

A crampy pain in the skin of the right temple (7^ p.m.)

The forehead itches

Eyes p. 165

Objective. Deep, broad, blue rings around the eyes

Glassy eyes ; agglutination of the eyes, in the morning; pressing pains in the eyes

Inflammation of the right eye, from December 18th to 30th

Ophthalmia, with pressing pains, as if sand were in the eyes; lachrymation during the night

Soreness of the eyes and burning, she has to close them constantly

Subjective. The eyes feel tired in the evening, as after reading much by candlelight (first day, evening)

Pressure in the right eye, worse when touching it

Pressure as of a foreign body m the right eye, as soon as it is closed ; when the eye is opened the pain is. gone (evening)

Pressing pains in the eyes

Burning, pressing pains in the eyes, when looking sharply at something, and in the evening by candlelight (from 10 drops of 30th)

Burning pains in the eyes, as if sand wer.e thrown into the eyes

Eyes as if full of sand,1. Biting pain in the eyes

Pressing stitches in the left eye

Stitches in the left eye

Stitches in the eye (fifth hour)

Fine stitching pain in the region of the eye, below the orbits, as if she had sand in the eyes (four hours),1. Lid The eyes become gummy

Heat and itching in the inner canthi (from 49 drops of 29th potency)

Itching in the canthi

Itching of the right eyelid (sixth hour)

Itching of the left lower eyelid from one side to the other

Lachrymal Apparatus. Towards evening, lachrymation

* Lachrymation (fifth hour)

When looking for a long time at an object the eyes fill with tears

Vision. The sight suddenly vanishes, so that for a few minutes everything appears blurred (second day)

Dazzling of the eves when walking in the street (evening, first day),1. * Fiery sparks before the eyes (fifth hour)

The former sparks, with vertigo before the eyes, reappear

All objects in the room appear as if they were trembling (vibrating)

Ears p. 166

Objective. ^Discharge of fetid pus from the ear (seventh hour)

* Discharge of fetid pus from the left ear

* Otorrhoea, with headache (eighth day)

Discharge of reddish cerumen from the left ear

Subjective. A long-continued, very painful stitch in the lobe of the left ear (evening)

Single intermitting tearing through the. left external meatus auditorium, sometimes also through the right, as from the temporal muscle to the styloid process, for several days (from 10 drops of 30th)

His ears feel as if stuffed with cotton, for several forenoons (from 10 drops of 30th)

Sensation in the left ear, as if the breath did not come from the respiratory organs, but from the ear

Sensation as if something suddenly bursts in the ears, when eating or swallowing saliva

Earache in right ear (seventh day, morning)

Biting pains in left ear,1. Pain as from an ulcer in left ear; at the same time on the right ear a pimple, having the appearance of the healthy skin, but split in four parts by a cross, like a wart; in the centre a deep small indentation,1. Stitching pain in the right ear, preceded by coldness

Stitching pains in the ears

After the buzzing, stitches in the left ear

Stitches towards noon in the ears

Stitches in the meatus auditorium internus, momentarily relieved by boring with the finger in the ear, then aggravated. Stitches frequently return, especially in the evening, during rest

Itching in the right ear

Hearing. Dull ringing in the left ear (first, day, evening)

Ringing either in the left or right ear, with buzzing in the head, so that she hardly hears anything; behind the ears, nthe region of the sterno-cleido-mastoideus, a tormenting sore pain ; sometimes for a moment a sensation of burning heat extending to the vertex; worse towards the evening, when she feels as if somebody pulls her up by the hair

The former roaring in the ears becomes so severe that he feels stupefied,2. Buzzing in the ear (first day)

The right ear seems changed ; he feels as if he hears with the ears of another person

Nose p. 166

Objective. Severe sneezing after boring pains in the right nostril

Frequent sneezing, without coryza

Sometimes severe sneezing (second day)

* The septum nariutn inflamed, with white suppurating pustules (seventh day)

Tough nasal mucus; he can hardly do a minute without his handkerchief, and still he has no coryza. It feels as if he had a plug high up in the nose, which nauseates him, relieved by stooping

The nose is not stuffed, but sometimes, especially when stooping, a clear watery fluid pours from the nose, especially from the left nostril

Fluent coryza, after burning in the nose

Severe coryza for several hours, and frequently repeated

Fluent coryza

Fluent coryza, without obstruction of the nostrils; a few drops of water frequently escape from the nostrils (from 10 drops of 30th)

Fluent coryza from left nostril (sixteen hours after 30th)

(An old coryza passed off after a few days), (from smelling 28th potency)

The dry coryza increases steadily (from 49 drops of 29th)

Dry coryza, with obstruction of the nose

Dry coryza (for three months)

Catarrh, with cough and expectoration of yellowish-green mucus

Subjective. Sensitiveness when breathing air through the nostrils, which are nearly dry (eighth day)

The nose stopped

Drawing in the nose up to the frontal sinuses, with pains in the eyes, as if coryza would set in, afterwards some fluid discharged from the nose (after one hour)/.

In the left nostril pain as of pricks with needles, when boring in it with the finger (eighth day)

Boring stitches in the right nostril, followed by severe sneezing (third day)

The burning ceases for a little while after the discharge of mucus (fourth day)

Burning in the nose, followed as in catarrh by fluent coryza ; after discharging the mucus burning pain ceases for a short time (fourth day)

Towards the root of the nose a scratching, crawling sensation, as if coryza would set in (from 6 drops of 30th)

Itching on the tip of the nose (first day); the nose more dry than usual; it seldom needs cleaning (third day)

Face p. 167

Swelling of the face and eyes

* Pale face (third day); the zygoma is painful to touch, as if the bone were suppurating (third evening)

Facial pain diminished

Burning in the face, followed by vesicles

Lip. ^Swelled upper lip

* Lips brown and black, dry (fifth evening)

* Lips dry

On the inner surface of the lower lip a clear vesicle

A vesicle frequently appears on the inner surface of the lower lip; it burns and pains

* Lips painful and seem swollen

* Burning of the lips

Stitching pains in the lower jaw

Painful itching of the right half of the upper lip, as if swollen

Mouth p. 167

Teeth. At night he gnashes his teeth so severely that it awakens him (after three doses of 30th)

Suddenly, and without cause, blood escapes from the hollow back tooth (from 10 drops of 30th)

The teeth seem on edge when smoking (first day, afternoon)

* Especially the front teeth feel so loose that he fears their falling out; the pain is increased by touching them

Teeth, which are usually loose, feel firm in their sockets (second day)

Tearing in the teeth

Stitching pains in the teeth, from one side to the other, extending to the head, followed by burning pain in the right cheek, which is also somewhat swollen

At dinner a severe stitch in a carious upper right tooth, as if the tooth would be pulled, followed by steady grumbling and hammering pain in all the teeth of the right side, only in daytime; ameliorated by the fresh air

When touching the teeth, in order to remove something which had lodged between them, a stitch as from needles

Intermitting tearing toothache in the molars of the left side, sometimes only a slight soreness, alternating with the headache (from 10 drops of 30th)

Glims. The gums inflame and swell up at a posterior hollow molar, with a crawling pain, aggravated by touch (from 10 drops of 30th)

* The gums on the right side only are ulcerated after the long-lasting toothache is entirely gone

Tongue. Intensely ulcerated tongue and gums, xvith sore throat

Coated tongue

* Nearly always a white coating on the tongue

* The tongue covered with a yellowish-white coating

* The tongue dry (fourth day)

* The tip of the tongue feels burnt as far as the middle, so that he has hardly any taste

* The tip of the tongue very dry, as if burnt, painful

General Month. Tough mucus in the mouth of a foul nauseous taste; the teeth stick together as if glued, and they can only be separated with difficulty (January 2d to 9th),1; (after smelling the 28th potency, and again repeated from 49 drops of 29th potency)

To the posterior wall of the soft palate tough scratching mucus adheres, tasting like old cheese, apparently coming from the choanse (nine hours after 6 drops of 30th)

* Adhesion of tough mucus to the posterior surface of the soft palate, necessitating hawking (observed in a herpetic patient)

* Dryness of the mouth; after the chill great thirst, then heat in the mouth

Dryness of the mouth,1; (after smelling the 28th potency, and again repeated from 49 drops of 29th potency)

Scratching in the back part of the mouth ; when sitting with the body leaning backward, feels asthmatic (twelve hours after 30th)

Taste. The whole dinner tastes oily

The bread and butter in the morning tastes for three days like urine of cats; at any other time it tastes natural

After eating or smoking tobacco, the nauseous taste increases

Flat insipid taste

Sticky taste in the mouth

Foul taste in the mouth ; she drinks to get rid of it

Bitter taste, passing off after eating and drinking (from the 30th)

* Bitter taste when not eating

Bitter taste mornings before eating, passing off during the meal; the tongue not coated

Bad taste, which finally becomes coppery

Throat p. 168

His throat became covered with spots the size of an ordinary pilule, and larger, covered with a cheesy-looking creamy top, a pink circle round the base, and some of them looked as if mortification were setting in ; they turned black, but there was no fetor; the throat symptoms were worse from hawking up, worse from gargling with cold water, and always better from his beer. I think it began on the left side, and was confined mostly to that side, perhaps extending a little to the right velum

A tough mucus is secreted through the choanse, adhering to the soft palate, and causing hawking; it tastes like old cheese (from 10 drops of 30th)

Secretion of thick mucus from the choanse into the mouth

* Severe angina; on the right side an ulcer, with a sore pain deep inside, and burning in the fauces

* Dryness; a scraping sensation in the throat (fourth day, morning)

Some dryness of the throat and oppression of the chest, immediately after taking the medicine

Sore throat; cannot swallow

Sore throat ; everything she takes burns, e. g., soup; but she can take cold food without difficulty (seventh day)

Sore throat, she swallows only with difficulty

Scraping sensation in throat, as if he would become hoarse (observed on a herpetic patient)

Scratching in the throat, with suffocation, causing a dry cough (from 10 drops of 30th)

Titillation in the throat, causing cough (sixth and seventh days, morning)

Titil lation in the throat (mornings)

Tickling sensation in the throat, followed by empty retching (morning)

Burning in the throat

Burning in the throat (fifth day)

Burning in the throat, constantly extending farther downwards

Painful sensation in the throat when swallowing saliva; difficult deglutition

Pressing pain in the throat; she swallows with difficulty; pains go and come

Pain in throat, as if it were swollen

Tonsil and Fauces. The left tonsil feels sore and swollen

A painful pustule on the fauces

Dryness of the fauces, with moisture in the mouth

The fauces feel as if they were swollen

Dull obtuse stitches in the left tonsil (sixth day)

External Throat. The submaxillary glands greatly swollen and painful to the touch ; also a very painful pustule below the left lower jaw

Stomach p. 169

Appetite. Unusually great hunger after a walk (third day, evening)

* Great hunger

In the afternoon, hunger and thirst for beer (first day)

Desire for breakfast (after two hours)

A good appetite, and still greater thirst

Hunger, in the evening (sixth day)

* Hunger, without appetite,k

Great desire to smoke, but when not smoking the appetite for it ceased (first evening)

After breakfast aversion to smoke, but when he begins, smoking is relished (first day, morning)

Although he has a good appetite, he is easily satiated

* Diminished appetite

Perfect disgust for pork

Thirst. No appetite to eat, but he wants continually to drink

Great thirst; dryness and burning in the mouth

Excessive thirst (fourth day)

Great thirst during dinner

Thirst, coldness, dryness in mouth and lips, for four days

Thirst for beer

Eructations. Sour eructations

Rancid eructations (evening)

Eructations tasting like rotten eggs (second day)

Eructations, with dull headache

Hiccough and Heartburn. Hiccough

Hiccough, after eating

Hiccough, soon after eating, when smoking his pipe

After drinking water, pyrosis

When lying down, waterbrash ; removed by getting up; colic removed by eating

Pyrosis

Nausea and Vomiting Constant nausea during the day, with inclination to vomit; a kind of vomiting of sweet mucus every morning at ten and in the evening (November 8th to January 21st)

Morning nausea

* Nausea and vomiturition

Nausea after all food

He feels nauseated and qualmish in the pit of the stomach (mornings)

He feels qualmish in his stomach after supper; after eating something roasted it ceases (first day, evening)

Vomiting after eating; nausea and vomiturition till vomiting took place, first of food, then of a sour slimy fluid (first day)

In the morning, before eating, vomiting of sour mucus, so that the teeth stand on edge

* Sour vomiting

Stomach. Bloatedness of the stomach

Much oppression of the stomach

Cramp in the epigastric region (fourth day)

Stitching pain in the pit of the stomach

Cutting in the epigastric region (fourth day)

Contracting pains in the epigastric region

Abdomen p. 169

Hypochondria Stitches in the region of the spleen, passing off when standing still, but are renewed when walking; after awhile they are even felt during rest

* Stitches in the region of the spleen

Stitches in the hepatic region

Umbilicus and Sides. Cutting in the abdomen, in the umbilical region

Stitches to the left of the umbilicus, very frequently during rest

Stitches in the right side of the abdomen

Severe stitches under the last rib, left side (from February to May the stitches continued in the abdomen)

Stitches in the sides

General Abdomen. Bloatedness of the abdomen after eating frozen things

Abdomen unusually bloated after eating

* Bloated abdomen

Passage of foul-smelling flatus

No flatulency whatever up to the middle of February

Gurgling and roaring in abdomen (from 10 drops of 30th)

Rumbling in the abdomen (sixth day, morning)

Gurgling in the small intestines (one hour after 30th)

Colic

Colic, towards evening, immediately removed by eating

Twisting in abdomen, so that he has to run for the closet; after the stool feels better; early in the morning

Griping all over abdomen, especially in the pubic region, in females

Griping in abdomen while riding

Intestinal cramps early in the morning in bed

Cutting pains in the intestines, relieved by the passage of offensive flatus.1.

Cutting pains in the intestines, as when taking a purge (third day)

Cutting pains in intestines; weakness and pressure in stomach have ceased

* Pains in abdomen after eating; flatulency, and tendency to diarrhoea; relief when flatus passes off

Pains in abdomen, especially in the epigastric region, as from canine hunger, and accumulation of flatus,-one hour after supper (three days after 6 drops of 30th)

Sensation of swelling horizontally across the abdomen, below the short ribs, when sitting

Hypogastrium and Iliac Region. Tenesmus and bearing down towards the pubes, with painful burning micturition

Twitching of the muscles in the right groin after riding, once, but very severe

Dull stitching pains in the inguinal glands (seventh day)

Dull pain in the right inguinal ring (from the 30th)

Rectum and Anus p. 170

Hemorrhoidal troubles in stormy weather

Burning nodes at the anus

* Unpleasant burning in the rectum, high up

Spasmodic pain in the rectum

Sensation in the rectum as if chafed, during a ride (fourth to sixth day)

Itching in the anus (fourth day)

Sometimes fruitless efforts to stool; he thinks he cannot hold it any longer, and after getting ready no stool passes

Stool p. 170

Diarrhoea Green bilious diarrhoea, mixed with mucus

Stool during night involuntary, he hardly can reach the closet, and at the same timeviolent emission of a large quantity of flatus; the stool was of normal consistency, and passed in small balls (sixth night)

Four or five stools a day, preceded by colic

Four diarrhoeic stools, without pain (second day)

* Diarrhoea, preceded by colic (first day, early)

The intestinal secretion is more copious and never so consistent as usual, for two days (from 49 drops of 29th)

Two stools in the forenoon; no more during the day

* Soft stool, passed with difficulty3.

* Stool dark-brown, very fluid, and foul-smelling

(He passes, as formerly, bloody mucus with the stool,2.)

Stool irregular, either costive or mushy (from 10 drops of 30th)

Sometimes a stool shoots away as from a syringe, another time it is mushy, sometimes even of normal consistency (first and fourth days)

Constipation Obstinate constipation2.

Tendency to constipation

Stools are stopped (first day)

Urinary Organs p. 170

Discharge of prostatic fluid before urinating (sixth day)

Stitches in the urethra, from the orifice inwardly (second day)

Burning and cutting during micturition

Tenesmus urine, very painful, and when he thinks he is done a few drops will yet be discharged

Some urine still flows from the urethra after micturition, although he tries to hold it back

Has to get up frequently at night to urinate

* The urine has a red sediment and a pellicle of fat

Sexual Organs p. 170

Male. The sexual organs relaxed (sixth day)

At the beginning of urinating, a burning pain at the tip of the penis

Frequently a tightness and drawing in the penis

Absence of erections

Absence of erections, even with lascivious thoughts, for about two weeks, followed for four days by morning erections and pollutions, with satyriasis, and finally the usual state (from 10 drops of 30th)

* The glams inflamed, with an ulcer on it, the testes szvollen and heavy.

Drawing in the testicles, but more steady in the small of the back, for several days

Indifference to sexual affairs, relaxation of the genitals, and no desire for coition

Perfect aversion to the coitus, nearly through the whole proving

Impotence

Perfect impotence, for four weeks (in a very robust, sexually vigorous inaug)

No semen is discharged during coition

Female. Menses eight days too late

Menses too late and scanty

Respiratory Organs p. 171

Larynx and Trachea Suffocation and crawling sensation in the larynx, producing a paroxysmal, dry, hacking cough, when sitting with the body bent backwards; at the same time a sensation of contraction and of heaviness in the entire thorax, and pressing pain in the upper part of the sternum (sixteen hours after 6 drops of 30th)

Tickling in the trachea, and frequent cough

Voice Hoarseness

Hoarseness in the chest and throat

Congll and Expectoration Cough with sensation of weakness in the chest

Cough, so that he could not remain in bed, for four nights, nor sleep for an hour; felt weak and dizzy

Cough, sometimes with expectoration of mucus, mixed with streaks of blood

In the morning, cough with copious expectoration (from 49 drops of 29th)

Continued cough, with expectoration from the chest of much saliva, and vomiting of acid mucus

* Cough, in the evening, with pains in the chest and throat, passing off when she is quiet; talking produces cough

Irritation to cough, with a sensation of coldness

* Dry hard cough, caused by tickling in the trachea

* Dry cough, with sensation of heaviness on the chest

Dry cough, with nausea and retching, with tickling in the throat, the whole day (seventh day, early)

* Dry cough, with soreness under the sternum (second day)

* Cough, with expectoration of green mucus, nearly like matter; especially in the morning when waking up, and in the evening when lying down, with nausea. It sticks firmly, and he can expectorate only with difficulty1.

Respiration. He breathes easily when doing some light work, as trimming trees

When awaking, sensation of constriction, whistling respiration, passing off after half an hour; in the evening, again some whistling in the chest

* Short breath1.

* Short breath in the fresh air, ameliorated by riding and lying down

The want of breath and pains in the chest are worse when sitting down, so that he could not write for six weeks; ameliorated by lying down

* Want of breath in the fresh air, so that he has to hurry home in order to lie down

Dyspnoea, in the evening (first day)

Chest p. 171

* Oppression in the chest

Dull feeling in the chest, with excruciating pains in the back

* Excruciating pains in the chest. He feels as if a heavy load were on the chest and presses it down, for three days, with want of breath, intolerably increased by inclining the head forwards, w hen stooping

When in bed he has to remove the arms from the chest as far as possible, otherwise they increase the pain

Pressing pains in the chest, always only for a short time (from 10 drops of 30th)

* Pressure on the chest

Pressing pains in the chest, always in small spots (from 10 drops of 30th)

Stitches in the chest, even when not breathing

When coughing, stitches in the chest

Feels contracted in the chest, and somewhat dry in the throat, immediately after taking the medicine

When lifting it feels as if everything were torn in the chest

* Cutting as of knives, in the chest; the throat feels as if burnt; eructations, followed by emission of much flatus, with good appetite, in the evening

Front and Sides. When coughing, pain in the chest, under the sternum, as if something would be torn away from under the sternum, extending to the throat (seventh day)

* Ulcerative pain in the chest under the sternum

When taking a deep breath, stitches in the sternum; when touching it, a pressing and bruised pain

Dull boring pain in the right side of the chest, with oppressed breathing (sixth day)

Twitching through the anterior left side of the chest

Stitches in the left chest

When breathing, stitches in the right side of the chest, several times

Stitching pressing under the left false ribs

Stitches in the right mamma

Heart p. 172

Palpitations (fifth day)

Heart and Pulse p. 172

Nect The glands of the neck are swollen on both sides, painful to the touch, as if they were bruised; the pain extends to the head (seventh day)

Boring and stiffness in the nape of the neck (sixth and seventh days)

Drawing pain in the neck, extending to the shoulder, after waking up

Tensive pain in the nape of the neck, after waking up, as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position (second day)

Extremely severe pain in the nape of the neck, only in the house ; it passes off immediately in the fresh air, but returns quickly in the house. By supporting the head with his hands, it feels as if it had no body, as if he could pass through it with his hands (a whole afternoon)

Pain in the muscles of the right side of the neck, in their upper sinewy part, as if there was suddenly too much tension (strain ?), when turning the head to the right side, or backward and sideways; relieved by external pressure

Stitching pains in the neck, and pustules of the size and form of lentils

Tearing in the nape of the neck

Each Excessive backache f

Backache, a kind of sticking pressure

Boring in the vertebrae; colic, as from rheum (mornings)

The back feels bruised ; he cannot straighten out (first evening)

* When breathing, frequent stitches from the back towards the chest

Dorsal. Boring pains in the dorsal vertebrae (sixth day)

Between the second and third dorsal vertebra a dull pressure (first day, afternoon)

A constant tearing in and between the shoulder-blades, down the sides, as if rheumatic (sixth and seventh days)

Tearing in the shoulder-blades (fifth clay)

Stitches between the shoulders (mornings)

Lumbar Weakness in the small of the back

Aching in the small of the back, especially during motion, like molimina haemorrhoidalia, so that he cannot comfortably walk straight (from smelling the 28th potency)

Pressure and itching in small of back (seventh clay)

For several days, continual drawing in the small of the back, and sometimes in the testicles

Pains in the back, as if the third vertebra from below were wanting or broken (very severe for eight days)

* Pains in the small of back

Pains in the lumbar vertebrae, with simultaneous aches in the abdomen ; flatulent troubles ; pains in the spermatic cords and testicles, as if filled with blood ; a soft stool, passed with difficulty

Cutting pain in the lumbar region, so that she could not walk alone

Stitches in the lumbar region, extending to the knee (seventh day, morning)

Several times stitching pressing in the os pubis, during bodily exertion

Tightness in the ischia, extending to the knees, when walking

Upper Extremities p. 172

Stretching of the extremities, without thirst or any other complaint

* Weakness in all the joints, as if they would not hold together

Tearing wandering pains in the extremities, especially affecting the tibiae and soles of the feet, but also the finger-joints, at times also the right patella, relieved by motion (from 10 drops of 30th)

Superior Extremities p. 172

Shoulder and Arm. Tearing in the left shoulder, afternoon and evening, when resting

Sensation as if the left arm was asleep, and numbness in the three first fingers and of half of the hand, mornings, for an hour (one hour and a half after 10 drops of 30th)

The left arm feels asleep, with crawling in the fingers, in the morning in bed (half an hour after 30th)

Tearing in the arm

Intermittent stitches in the left arm

Spasmodic pains in the bones of the whole left arm, evening when at rest

elbow, Tearing in the right elbow (first day, evening)

Tearing in elbow

Hand and Fingers Trembling of hands (sixth day)

•* Trembling of the hands and feet (fourth day)

At intervals a tearing pain in the joints of the fingers, and in the humerus, knee, toes, lasting a short time, but frequently repeated, relieved by motion

Stitches in the left index finger

Inferior Extremities p. 173

Knee and Leg. Tearing in the left knee and shoulder

Sensation in the right leg, as if it would go to sleep (eight hours after 6 drops of 30th)

The leg on which he lies in bed feels too weak to endure the pressure of the other; he has to change his position continually, till he falls asleep (for six days)

* Pains in the legs, especially in the tibiae and soles, as after too much exercise in walking, with a peculiar restlessness in the legs, so that he frequently changes position, passing off after rising, for several mornings while in bed (eight hours after 30th)

Bruised sensation in the tibiae and soles of the feet, as after a tiresome journey on foot, for several mornings in bed (from 10 drops of 30th)

Ankle. (A great swelling around the ankles passes off;,2.

In the morning, with every step, a stitching pain in the right ankle, also as if he had strained a sinew

Foot and Toes. Trembling of feet

Inclination when walking to turn the left foot inwards, with sensation as if he had really turned it the wrong way, so that he looks at it in order to convince himself of the contrary (for five days)

Gouty pains in the whole left foot

The pains and itching of the feet increase during rest

Cramp or spasm in single toes, especially in the great toe of the left foot, when stretching it out or taking off boots

Generalities p. 173

* He looks pale, exhausted, and thinner than usual; all his clothing is too large for him (fourteen days after 49 drops of 29th)

Hot tremblings over the whole body, with great rush of business

Weakness and tired sensation towards evening; feels better as soon as he goes to bed

* Malaise; he feels tired out

* A very little labor exhausts his strength

* He feels exhausted after riding in a wagon f

Great heaviness of the whole body, as if he would be attacked with an intermittent fever

Stormy weather makes him sick, and causes hemorrhoidal troubles

* Stormy weather affects him; he feels already a restlessness in his blood a few days beforehand

When the sun shines upon her, a sensation as if it pushes her down ; she has to rest a little while in the shade in order to walk on (fourth day)

(After putting on too light clothing in the spring, he suffers from his old rheumatic pains in the neck, head, shoulders, back, stomach, etc., with constant eructations, irregular stools, twitching in the left eye)

Cannot sleep on the habitual right side, but sleeps on the left (for ten days)

Amelioration in the fresh air; much mucus in the mouth of a nauseous taste. (September 10th till last days of October)

Feels best when lying down

She feels a great deal better in the morning

Skin p. 173

Eruptions, Dry, Unusual roughness of the knuckles, extending up to the metacarpus externally (for five days)

On the fingers of the left hand, several small warts of the size of a pin’s head, slightly raised above the skin, smooth, as if they were pared off (fourteen days after 10 drops of 30th)

It reproduced a large quantity of small warts, which he had years ago on the left hand (observed on a herpetic patient)

Red miliaria on the neck, beginning with a stitching pain. Pimples on the neck and mammae

A coarse miliary eruption over the left eyebrow and cheek, which soon passes off (third day)

Eruptions causing an itching-stinging pain, burning after scratching, and feeling sore (observed on a herpetic patient)

Many painless nodules in the face, on the neck and lower extremities, for a long time

Small burning pimples below the eyes, like heat rash

Red pimples on the margins of the upper lids, like fresh hordeola ; sensation as if something were moving before the eyes, as if one was playing with his fingers before them

On the border of both upper eyelids a pimple like a hordeolum (fifth day)

A small pimple on the upper lip

A small pimple on the neck, with a small tip of the size of the head of a pin, with a black point in the centre, very painful when scratched (mornings)

Itching on the right carpus, with red spots, like fleabites, which itch and then pass off

Eruptions, 3£oist. It always aggravates herpes and produces troublesome colic, or stinging itching

* Eruptions, consisting of vesicles filled with lymph, painful to the. touch, at various places on the body; some form papules and itch severely (after 10 drops of 30th)

* On the face, hand, and bade, also on the legs, an stitchlike eruption appears, and the eyes agglutinate so that they cannot be opened f

* Eruption of small vesicles, quickly filling with a yellow lymph, painful like sores to the touch, drying up after a few days, on the forehead and several plates of the face, also behind the right ear (after 10 drops of 30th)

Many vesicles on the face

A yellow vesicle of the size of a pin’s head gradually forms at the red edge of the lower lip, feeling sore only when touched (twenty-four hours after 30th)

Around the whole mouth an eruption of small vesicles ; outwardly above both corners of the mouth, larger sore spots, exuding a fluid which seemed to originate from scratching the above-mentioned vesicle and cause a continual scratching (in a boy of three years, otherwise perfectly healthy, three days after 10 drops of 1st)

A scab on the nose, which commonly fell off when coughing, is now firmly adherent aud hard

A painful suppurating vesicle on the scrotum

Eruptions, Pustular. The left concha inwardly inflamed with suppurating pimples (seventh day)

Small boils on the chest and loins

Especially on the hands, wrists, and palms, numbers of small papules and ulcers, from which, after being opened, a large quantity of watery fluid oozes for hours

Several pustules in the nape of the neck, with stitching pains

Towards evening there appear on the buttock numerous small boils, causing a burning itching, which soon disappear, aud leave only small crusts

An old rhagades near the processus styloideus ulnae texture suppurated, itched, and remained surrounded by small blisters, filled with clear water ; these soon changed to pustules, which healed under a crust (from smelling 28th potency)

Sensations Itching over the whole body ; when rubbed, small papules and vesicles arise

Voluptuous itching at the point where a flea bit; can hardly stand it ; white hard blisters on a red base at such points

Itching inVhe face, on the neck and hands, when she touches these places

Easy crawling and tingling of all extremities, for several days (after 10 drops of 30th)

Itching in the biceps of the right arm

Itching on the left arm

Itching on the right elbow

* Itching between the fingers, so that he has to scratch continually ; small vesicles full of lymph

* An itching in the knee-joints, which he had for several years, especially of the left, becomes aggravated, and the herpetic eruption begins to become pustular (from 49 drops of 29th),B.

In the evening, after a glass of Muscat wine, itching of the soles, with tickling and heat (from 49 drops of 29th potency)

Sleep p. 175

Sleepiness. Much yawning, at noon and in the evening

Frequent yawning, in the evening

Frequent yawning and early sleepiness, in the evening

Gaping, the first hour; shiverings, with pale blue rings ; with tearing and spasmodic pains in the umbilical region (seventh day, noon)

Sleep unusually sound at night, several nights (after sixth day)

* Very sleepy, in daytime (sixth day)

She sleeps as soon as she sits down

Sleepy all the time

For several days he becomes sleepy very early

Sleeplessness. Restless sleep on account of disquieting dreams

Restless, unrefreshing sleep

Sleep restless but refreshing

Very restless sleep, for several nights

Cannot fall asleep, in the evening (for five weeks)

Dreams. He dreams of*his business and of his plans

* Anxious dreams of robbers, travels, and dangers (morning)

Very uneasy, earnest dreams

He dreams that he is on the closet, and thus nearly soils his bed (fifth day)

Many connected dreams which are remembered; the body is in the same position when waking up as in the evening when falling asleep (curative action)

Fever p. 175

Chilliness. Several times chilliness, especially in the evening, with hot flashes, great weakness, debility, sleepiness

Creeping chills

Horripilations, several times a day (sixth day)

Sensation of coldness, for several days

Towards noon, internal coldness, with shivering and horripilation

Several times during the day, sensation of coldness

Internal shivering in the afternoon, and creeping chills

• Feet icy cold, from evening till morning, for several nights (from 10 drops of 30th)

Meat. At the meals, and in the evening frequently, a sudden heat over the whole body, with trickling perspiration all over the face, whereas others complain of coldness. Frequent thirst, dryness, and burning in the mouth

Heat, sweat, thirst, during the chill and heat

Heat in the evening as if she would lose her senses ; is delirious, very thirsty, perspires during the night, then feels well

Heat and sweat, in the evening, when riding in a carriage (sixth day)

Heat, in the afternoon

Heat and itching of the right ear (from 49 drops of 29th potency)

Sweat. *He perspires freely when walking

: When taking a walk, profuse sweat with consequent debility, and taking cold easily f

Perspiration on the face

Copious perspiration on perineum, when moving about

Copious sweat on the palms, at night

Sweat in the palms and face

* Sweat on the palms of the hands,l.

Conditions p. 175

Aggravation.

(Morning'), Irritable and quarrelsome; vertigo; on rising, frontal headache ; headache over the whole forehead ; pressive pinching pain in forehead ; agglutination of the eyes ; bread and butter tastes like cat’s urine ; bitter taste ; at 10 oclock, vomiting of sweet mucus; nausea; before eating, sour vomiting; in bed, early, intestinal cramps ; cough ; when getting up, cough with expectoration of greenish mucus; sensation as if the left arm was asleep, with numbness of fingers and hands; crawling in fingers; in bed, pains in legs ; bruised sensation in tibiae and soles of feet; with every step, pain in ankle.

(Forenoon), Ears stuffed.

(Towards noon), Stitches in the ears.

(Noon), Yawning.

(Afternoon), Hunger and thirst for beer ; internal shivering ; heat.

(Towards evening), Lachrymation ;, colic; weakness and tired sensation.

(Evening), Headache over forehead; pressive pinching pain in forehead ; eyes feel tired ; by candlelight, pains in eyes; sore pain behind ears ; hunger ; vomiting of sweet mucus ; cough ; when lying down, cough with expectoration of green mucus ; dyspnoea ; eructations ; emission of flatus, etc.; when at rest, pain in bones of whole left arm ; yawning; chilliness; sudden heat over the whole body, with tickling perspiration.

(Night), Lachrymation ; gnashing of teeth ; feet icy cold ; sweat on palms.

(Fresh air), Want of breath.

(Walking in fresh air), Pressive pinching pain in forehead; dazzling of the eyes.

(Before falling asleep). Excitable.

( When awaking), Whistling respiration.

( When breathing), Stitches in right side of chest; stitches from back towards chest.

(During chill and heat), Heat, sweat, aud thirst.

(After chill), Great thirst, then heat in mouth.

( When coughing), Stitches in chest; pain in chest.

(During dinner), Thirst.

(After drinking water), Pyrosis.

(When eating), Sensation as if something burst in the ears.

(After eating), Nauseous taste; hiccough; vomiting; pain ill abdomen; flatulency, etc.; abdomen bloated; frozen things, bloatedness of abdomen.

(During bodily exertion), Stitching pressing in os pubis.

(Inclining head forward when stooping), Want of breath ; pains in chest.

(In the house), Pain in nape of neck.

(When lifting), Feeling as if everything were torn in chest.

(Looking sharply), Pains in eyes ; for a long time, eyes fill with tears.

(When lying down), Waterbrash, removed by getting up.

(At meals), Sudden heat over the whole body, with trickling perspiration.

(During mental labor), Fulness of head ; pulsation of blood in head.

(Mental exertion), Headache over forehead.

( After mental exertion), Pain in temples.

(During motion), Aching in small of back.

(During micturition), Burning and cutting.

(During rest), Stitches to left of umbilicus; in the afternoon and evening, tearing in left shoulder; pains and itching of feet.

(When riding in a carriage), Anxiety.

(While riding), Griping in abdomen ; chafed sensation iu rectum.

(After riding in a wagon), Exhaustion.

(After riding), Twitching of muscles in right groin. (Scratching in throat). Cough.

(When sitting). Sensation of swelling across abdomen ; want of breath ; pains in chest.

(Sitting with body bent backward), Suffocation and crawling iu larynx, contraction in throat, etc.

(If lien smoking), Teeth seem on edge; nauseous taste.

(When stretching toe out), Cramp in big toe of left foot.

(Stormy weather), Sickness and hemorrhoidal troubles.

(After supper), Qualmish

(Swallowing saliva), Sensation as if something bursts in the ears; pain in throat.

(Talking), Cough.

(When taking boot off), Cramp in great toe of left foot.

(Taking a deep breath), Stitches in sternum.

(Titillation in throat), Cough.

(Tickling in trachea), Dry hard cough.

(Touching part), Pressure in right eye ; pain in teeth ; pain iu gums; pressing, bruised pain in sternum ; itching on neck, face, and hands.

(Turning the head to the right side or backwards and sideways), Pain in muscles of right side of neck.

(Turning neck on left side), Stitch in sinews of head.

(Before urinating), Discharge of prostatic fluid.

(At the beginning of urinating), Pain iu tip of penis.

( When walking), Stitches in spleen; tightness in the ischia, extending to the knees; inclination to turn left foot inward ; profuse sweat.

(After a walk), Hunger.

(After waking up), Pain iu nape of neck.

Amelioration p. 176

(Morning), The symptoms.

(Fresh air), Pains in teeth ; pain iu nape of neck ; the symptoms.

(Fating), Colic; something roasted,qualmishness.

(Emissionofflatus),Cutting pains in the intestines.

(Lying down), Short breath iu fresh air ; want of breath ; pains in chest; the symptoms.

(Motion), Headache over the whole forehead ; tearing pain in extremities.

(Nosebleed), Dulness of head.

(External pressure), Pain in the muscles of the right side of the neck.

(Riding), Short breath in fresh air.

(Standing still), Stitches in region of spleen.

(Stooping), Feeling of plug in nose.